Bryan Fuller Reveals STAR: TREK DISCOVERY's Lead Character Will Be Known as "Number One," Plus More Details

I think it's safe to say that despite the decision to only have Bryan Fuller's new Star Trek: Discovery TV series air on CBS All Access, fans are still looking forward to seeing Trek return to the small screen (where some say it truly belongs). Information about the upcoming series is still scant, but so far we've learned that it will take place in the Prime timeline, feature a female lead protagonist who isn't a captain, and include an openly gay character. Now, in a new interview with Ain't It Cool News, Fuller has revealed more info about the show's first season.

First up, he says the lead character will be referred to as "Number One."

"When we introduce our protagonist, she is called 'Number One' in honor of Majel Barrett's character in the original pilot. And as we were first talking about the series, talking to CBS, we said initially we will only call this character Number One."

Fuller claimed we'll learn the character's real name before the end of the first season.

Additionally, Gretchen Berg & Aaron Harberts, who worked with Fuller on Wonderfalls and Pushing Daisies, have been hired as co-showrunners. This makes a lot of sense, considering Fuller is a super busy guy these days (he also has the highly-anticipated Starz series American Gods to oversee). Along those same lines, the showrunner said that the first season will be 13 episodes, but he'd ideally like to do 10-episode seasons in the future and would be opposed to stretching it out to 26 per season because that would "fatigue the show."

As for the decision to set the show in the Prime timeline, Fuller explained:

"Really when we developed the story it could take place in either Prime or Kelvin so the timeline was relatively inconsequential. But there was the cleanliness of keeping our series independent of the films. That way we don't have to track anything [happening in the movie universe] and they don't have to track what we're doing. And you can have two distinct universes -- one where Sulu is straight and one where Sulu is gay."

Fuller also said he is "not anticipating an over-reliance on time travel to tell this season's stories," so it sounds like time travel junkies may have to wait until 2018 to get your fix on the Trek front. Read more at AICN.

Star Trek: Discovery premieres in 2017, and we'll keep you posted when casting news starts to break (which may be in October, or even sooner).